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Crew holding 10,000th round fired this deployment. |
Crew members examining Army Huey on Helo deck. | December 1972, Sydney Australia Harbor (with famous, and then quite new Sydeny Opera House). Tucker was returning from Vietnam to San Diego on it's final overseas deployment. | Tucker at anchor (taken from motor whaleboat) at
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Final lowering of the U.S. National
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Peter wrote: I hope my brother doesn't
mind, but here's a photo of the two of us on Manus Island, in the Admiralty
Islands. It's on our way back to the States after the Tucker tour of
Vietnam that ended February 1, 1973. We had been on NGFS duty, Naval
Gun Fire Support duty of the coast of Vietnam for a few months. On our
way back, the ship stopped at Manus, an Australian Navy port. Pretty
small place. We were all entitled two two beers...and I had both of
them in my hands. The natives came by and sold us some trinkets. I had
gone swimming... the only one of the crew to do so. So, my brother Chris
(whom most might know of as Robert C.) and I, Peter Murphy, got our
picture taken by another crewmate. He was an EMSN, and I was an RMSN.
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